We hang out with our own bodies all the time – so we often tend to take it for granted. But, if you think about everything your body does, it’s incredible in its own way.Just take as the instance of digesting breakfast, growing new skin, cracking sound of knuckles. So, here’s my list of some, read them and get ready to be astonished:
- A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr.( I don’t even drive at this speed)
- Our eyes can distinguish up to ten million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known.( Now you guy’s know, how can girls differentiate from plethora of shades of pink)
- We exercise at least 36 muscles when we smile. (Say thanks to all your friends for this one.)
- Our nose is our personal air conditioner system: it harms cool air; cools the hot air and filter impurities.
- It is believed that the main purpose of eyes is to keep sweat out of the eyes. (And here we thought it was just to define our eyes, isn’t it?)
- Your body has enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight. (This doesn’t apply to Khali, of course!!)
- After the age of 30, humans gradually shrink in size. (Beware! short girls: you would need those heels now more than ever.)
- The human body has lesser muscles as compared to that of a caterpillar. (Hey, what do you know huh: ask a medical student about this one.)
- Babies start dreaming even before they are born.
- There are more bacteria in your mouth then the population of the United States and Canada combined. (Eeuuuhhh, I m never eating again.)
- Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour – about 1.5 pounds per year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
- You burn more calories while sleeping than you do when watching television. (Maybe if asleep for a year, I’ll wake up with a figure similar to Priyanka Chopra.)
- Our eyes never grow and our nose and ears never stop growing. (Girls, watch out for that nose every morning.)
- The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest. (Damn it, now I know why this happens always.)
- Women think twice as much as men do. (Totally agree)
- The crackling sound made by knuckles, necks, backs is actually the sound of bubbles popping in the joints. (I just love hearing the sound)
- The brain when spread out, is as big as the size of a pillowcase. By 6 years of age, our brain is nearly 90% developed. (That’s the reason why kids are so smart.)
- Just one drop of blood contains about 10,000 while blood cells and 250,000 platelets. (Wwoooww!!)
- Sweat doesn’t smell bad, it is caused when skin bacteria feed on sweat and from the waste product which actually is smelly. (I am never getting sweaty again.)
- Your salivary glands produce two to six cups of saliva a day. (Six cups can fill a 2-liter soda bottle, anyone up for it?)
Some of the facts just make you go crazy, don’t they?